The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
L'occasion de faire du mal se trouve cent fois par jour, et celle de faire du bien une fois dans l'année.
Original text (French)
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
We have never intended to enlighten shoemakers and servants—this is up to apostles.
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